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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 39038b1 | If you suppose it could have happened, you are far less likely to question yourself as to whether it did. | David McRaney | ||
| 36b99e6 | Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely You Are Now So Smart by David McRaney You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris | Sia Mohajer | ||
| 2589984 | As comedian Tim Minchin says in his song "Storm," "Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? Medicine." | David McRaney | ||
| 11747b7 | A long day of dealing with bullshit often leads to an evening of no-decision television ... | David McRaney | ||
| d59ff51 | the very act of looking down on others made people more confident. | David McRaney | ||
| 63efd46 | you expect better performances from attractive people, but when they fail, you are also more likely to forgive them. | David McRaney | ||
| 00abdf1 | It turns out, for any plan to work, every team needs at least one asshole who doesn't give a shit if he or she gets fired or exiled or excommunicated. For a group to make good decisions, they must allow dissent and convince everyone they are free to speak their mind without risk of punishment. | David McRaney | ||
| fced895 | Whatever groups you don't belong to become the groups who you think will be bowled over by messages you don't agree with. | David McRaney | ||
| 1c8d5e8 | The illusion of control is a peculiar thing because it often leads to high self-esteem and a belief your destiny is yours for the making more than it really is. This over-optimistic view can translate into actual action, rolling with the punches and moving ahead no matter what. Often, this attitude helps lead to success. Eventually, though, most people get punched in the stomach by life. | David McRaney | ||
| 976ae5e | Who you think you are is sort of like a movie based on true events, which is not necessarily a bad thing. | David McRaney | ||
| c5ed191 | After more than a thousand of these buzz-report-introspect-text moments, Graham looked over the data and found that couples who routinely performed difficult tasks together as partners were also more likely to like each other. Over the course of his experiments, he found that partners tended to feel closer, more attracted to, and more in love with each other when their skills were routinely challenged. | David McRaney | ||
| 680b17a | Just spending time together is not enough, he said. The sorts of activities you engage in are vital. Graham concluded you are driven to grow, to expand, to add to your abilities and knowledge. When you satisfy this motivation for self-expansion by incorporating aspects of your romantic partner or friend into your own skills, philosophies and self, it does more to strengthen your bond than any other act of love. This opens the door to one of.. | David McRaney | ||
| ed1c662 | politicians who bring out charts and graphs tend to fail, and those who use anecdotes tend to win. Stories make sense on an emotional level, so anything that conjures fear, empathy, or pride will trump confusing statistics. It causes you to buy a security system for your house but neglect to purchase radon detectors. It makes you carry pepper spray while you clog your arteries with burritos. It installs metal detectors in schools but leaves.. | David McRaney | ||
| ac0c705 | The affect heuristic speaks to your basic sensibilities about risk and reward while neglecting the big picture and the dangers of complex systems that require study and deeper understanding. | David McRaney | ||
| e50145c | Philosopher Daniel Dennett calls seeing yourself in this way heterophenomenology. Basically, he suggests when you explain why you feel the way you do, or why you behaved as you did, to take it with a grain of salt, as if you were listening to someone tell you about their night out. When you listen to someone else tell a story, you expect some embellishment and you know they are only telling you how the events seemed to transpire to them. In.. | David McRaney | ||
| febaacb | The affect heuristic is stronger still when something is familiar or speaks to the primal brain. The feeling you get in your gut telling you yes or no, good or bad is greatly influenced by the affect heuristic. | David McRaney | ||
| 12737e5 | You are always looking for risks and rewards, but when you want to believe something is good you will unconsciously turn down the volume on the bad qualities, and vice versa. | David McRaney | ||
| 5e1b204 | first impressions are difficult to change. | David McRaney | ||
| 25cfc92 | Dunbar's Number THE MISCONCEPTION: There is a Rolodex in your mind with the names and faces of everyone you've ever known. THE TRUTH: You can maintain relationships and keep up with only around 150 people at once. | David McRaney | ||
| 0cbd8c6 | Sure enough, all the sciences that study tribes, bands, and villages have approximated ancient groups usually maxed out around 150 people. This is the approximate upper limit to how many people you can trust and count on for favors, whom you can call up and have a conversation with. Once you go over 150 people, Dunbar says about 42 percent of the group's time would have to be spent worrying about one another's relationships. | David McRaney | ||
| 34baa0e | Once people started coming up with ways to maintain larger groups, like armies, cities, and nations, humans started subdividing those groups. Dunbar's number explains why big groups are made of smaller, more manageable groups like companies, platoons, and squads--or branches, divisions, departments, and committees. No human institution can efficiently function above 150 members without hierarchies, ranks, roles, and divisions. | David McRaney | ||
| 5e210e5 | As Malcolm Gladwell pointed out in his book The Tipping Point, if a company grows beyond 150 people, productivity sharply declines until the company divides its outlying entities into smaller groups. You function better in a cluster--that way everyone in that cluster is connected to one another and only certain individuals connect your cluster to other clusters. | David McRaney | ||
| 3b8ac82 | Dunbar's most recent research suggests even power-users of Facebook with 1,000 or more friends still communicate regularly with only around 150 people, and of that 150 they strongly communicate with a group of less than 20. | David McRaney | ||
| 4949896 | You can maintain a giant number of weak ties to people on Facebook, Twitter, and whatever comes next, much like you can in a giant company. Strong ties, however, require constant grooming. People who use the number of friends they have on Facebook as a metric of their social standing are fooling themselves. You can share videos of fainting goats with hundreds of acquaintances and thousands of followers, but you can trust a secret only with .. | David McRaney | ||
| 2e9fe5e | Selling Out THE MISCONCEPTION: Both consumerism and capitalism are sustained by corporations and advertising. THE TRUTH: Both consumerism and capitalism are driven by competition among consumers for status. | David McRaney | ||
| e05ea12 | Social Loafing THE MISCONCEPTION: When you are joined by others in a task, you work harder and become more accomplished. THE TRUTH: Once part of a group, you tend to put in less effort because you know your work will be pooled together with others'. | David McRaney | ||
| e719694 | When a movie begins with the words "Based on a True Story," what crosses your mind? Do you assume every line of dialogue, every bit of clothing and song in the background is the same as it was in the true event on which the film was based? Of course you don't. You know movies like Pearl Harbor or Erin Brockovich take artistic license with facts, shaping them so a coherent story will unfold with a beginning, middle, and end. Even biopics abo.. | David McRaney | ||
| dd3ec2b | So, how about spanking? After reading all this, do you think you are ready to know what science has to say about the issue? Here's the skinny: Psychologists are still studying the matter, but the current thinking says spanking generates compliance in children under seven if done infrequently, in private, and using only the hands. Now, here's a slight correction: Other methods of behavior modification, such as positive reinforcement, token e.. | David McRaney | ||
| 5301e7a | The recent fuss over our oversharing culture and over the possible loss of privacy is just noisy ignorance. As a citizen of the Internet, you obfuscate the truth of your character. You hide your fears and trasgressions and vulnerable yearnings for meaning, for purpose, for connection. In a world where you can control everything presented to an audience, domestic or imaginary, what is laid bare depends on who you believe is on the other side.. | David McRaney | ||
| 150b9fc | Baumeister and his group wrote in the social-exclusion paper that being part of society means accepting a bargain between you and others. If you will self-regulate and not be selfish, then you get to stay and enjoy the rewards of having a circle of friends and society as a whole, but if you break that bargain, society will break its promise and reject you. Your friend groups will stop inviting you to parties and will unfollow you on Twitter.. | David McRaney | ||
| 0bce4d5 | You Are Not So Smart podcast host and psychology buff David McRaney are perfect, bite-sized ways to inspire your curiosity without requiring a huge time investment. | Rohit Bhargava | ||
| d4c8f56 | The restaurant employees hoaxed by Officer Scott would later say this was what happened to them. | David McRaney | ||
| f1f836c | 34 | David McRaney | ||
| 0fd28f4 | Better yet, combine your warmth and flattery with requests that they do a small favor or two FOR YOU. This strategy is akin to what author David McRaney calls "the Benjamin Franklin effect," which is based on experiments that show we come to like people that we do nice things for and to dislike people that we treat unkindly." | Robert I. Sutton | ||
| 46e3c03 | Cognitive biases are predicable patterns of thought and behavior that lead you to draw incorrect conclusions. | David McRaney | ||
| e3b43c4 | Besides death, your destiny is not inescapable. | destiny | David McRaney | |
| b3f5388 | These are a substantial number of "they" who once a year meet to deliberate the fate of national economies and, hence, entire populations. Many of them also believe in the mandate of eugenics, the practice of improving the human race to include reducing the population. Know that we do not have the names of every attendee. Only those who authorize the release of their names get mentioned in the public media. Daniel Estulin, author of The Tru.. | Jim Marrs | ||
| f39a716 | You don't buy photographs from Otto Leipzig, you don't buy Degas from Signor Benati, follow me?" "Do" | John le Carré | ||
| 9f8b252 | he was proud of having thrown caution | John le Carré | ||
| ad890f5 | En cualquier interrogatorio, la negacion es el punto de inflexion. | John le Carré | ||
| 0510b2f | there was no future: there was only a continued slide into still more terrifying versions of the present. | John le Carré | ||
| 60f68a8 | I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention | reinvention order | John le Carre | |
| 60b7261 | es un trabajo importante, siempre que creas en los fines y no te preocupen demasiado los medios. | John le Carré | ||
| 0e08bac | shoes and a leather jacket. When Burr had | John le Carré |